Window-shade fixture.



BEST AVAILABLE COPY P, W. LOWE. WINDOW SHADE FIXTURE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1908.

Patented July 6,1909;

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FRANKW. LOWE, Olf" BOSTON, l IASSACHUSETTS.

WINDOW-SHADE FIXTURE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Application filed June 25, 1908. Serial No. 440,253.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. LOWE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Window-Shade Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention particularly relates to outside fixtures for window shade rollers, which comprise a fixture having a bearing in which a projecting shaft on one end of the roller may rotate and a fixture having a vertical slot, open at the upper end, in which the flat, spring-winding shaft is held from rotation.

The object of my invention is to provide a pair of fixtures of the above character, each of which maybe made of a continuous piece of wire bent into suitable form. I accomplish this object by the'means shown in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a pair of shade fixtures with the shade roller thereon. Figs.2 and 3 are side elevations of the two fixtures respectively.

The bearing fixture comprises a continuous piece of wire having a threaded shank a adapted to be screwed into the window casing, the wire being bent at right angles to said shank portion to provide a downwardly extending portion a, then circularly, to provide a screw-eye a, then upwardly to provide a section a arallel to the section a and then forward y at right angles, and in the o osite direction from the shank a, to providb an arm a, said arm being circularly bent at its end in a vertical plane to provide a projecting shaft b of the shade roller 0. The holding fixture also comprises a continuous piece of wire bent to provide a shank d, threaded, as shown, a de ending ortion d, a screw-eye (F, a paralle upward y extending portion (1 and a forwardly and horizontally extending arm (1, substantially the same as already described, with relation to the other bracket. The end portion, however, of thearm d is extended vertically upward from said arm (1 forminga section (i and then obliquely upward, outwardly or away from the other fixture, and then semicircularly and downward in the same plane, forming an inclined loop portion at, and then vertically downward to the arm (1 in a direction parallel to the section (Z forming a section (1 which, with the section d forms a vertical slot or recess, adapted to receive the flat-ended springwinding shaft 0 of the roller and hold the same from rotation. Screwsf are adapted to be passed through the eyes a and (1 to hold the fixtures from turning on their shanks after they have been screwed in place, as will be obvious.

In lacing the shade roller in position, the shaft is inserted in the eye a and then the shaft 0 is lowered into the slot formed by the sections (1 and d, the obliquely extending connecting loop d permitting the projecting spaft e to be placed in and removed from said s 0t.

A fixture made according to this invention, is of inexpensive construction, unobtrusive in appearance, and fulfils all practical requirements.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A shade roller fixture composed of a continuous piece of wire bent to provide a screw-receiving loop, a supporting shank extending at right angles thereto from one side portion of said loop, and a roller supporting arm extending from the other side portion of said loop oppositely to said shank, said arm having its end portion bent upon itself to provide a roller holding and retaining portion, substantially as described.

2. A shade roller fixture comprising a continuous piece of wire bent to provide a vertically disposed screw-receiving loop, a supporting shank extending horizontally from one member of said loop, an arm extending horizontally from the other member of said loop, and-oppositely to said shank, said arm having its end portion extended upwardly, then longitudinally toward the shank, and then downwardly to the arm, to form a shaftholding slot, the upper portion of the loop thus formed extending to one side of the vertical plane of the lower portion thereof, so that said slot will be open at its upper end, substantially as described.

3. A shade roller fixture comprising a continuous wire bent to provide a supporting shank, and an arm' extending oppos therefrom, said arm having ts f I bent upon itself in loop form, the sides of the name to this specification, in the presence of loop next the arm being parallel to form a two subscribing Witnesses.

shaft holding slot and the other portion of said loop being extended to one side of the FRANK LOWE 5 plane of said slot-forming sides, substan- Witnesses:

tial'ly as described. L. H. HARRIMAN,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my H. B. DAVIS. 

